Victims in accidental
shooting seek sense of
security in Merritt
By Cavelle Layes

1734 Brunner Ave. after the incident, due to fear and anxiety.
They are now staying at Tanya’s sister’s house in Merritt.
“We needed a chance to gather
ourselves,” Cory said, noting the
couple has spent years struggling
to make ends meet while working
minimum-wage jobs.
They have worked hard to
ensure they did not need to rely
on “the system,” he said, but
with Cory in need of surgery for
another matter and Tanya a long
way from recovering fully, neither
is able to work.
With no income outside of
employment insurance, they cannot find an affordable place to
live.
When retrieving their belongings from the Brunner Avenue
house, Cory discovered their
home had been broken into and
items were stolen.
As he tried to pack up what
was left, the loud banging from
the upstairs unit sent him into a
ball on the floor.
Terror and fear pumped
through him as he tried to collect
his family’s belongings.
“It was still so loud,” Cory
said. “There was so much yelling and banging. It was like they
thought nothing had happened.
They were still just partying it
up.”
The family was forced to sell
belongings, including couches,
beds and smaller items, as they
had no place to store them.

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Five-year-old Tristan Sabyan
sat on the lap of her mom, Tanya
Watkins, cuddling as she watched
cartoons on television.
Tristan’s dad, Cory Sabyan, sat
by their side, enjoying the peaceful time with his family.
Moments later, chaos erupted.
Cory crouched by the fridge,
clutching his blood-covered
daughter.
Tanya remained on the couch,
in shock and pain.
The family had become victims of crossfire from a violent
June 4 fight in the suite above
them in their rental home in the
Brocklehurst neighbourhood of
Kamloops.
A bullet allegedly shot by
Trevor Wilvers went through the
floor and into Tanya’s arm, blasting into her elbow and ripping
through her bicep before lodging
in her shoulder.
Her bones were blown apart
and pieces were dragged throughout her arm.
According to Cory, his wife,
who now has nerve and muscle
damage, was told by doctors she
would never fully recover. He said
the bones were so damaged that
many pieces could not be recovered and a metal rod has been
inserted in her arm.
Tanya cannot move her thumb
or close her hand and she may
need bone grafting.
The family, stricken with fear,
could not return to the home at

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Shooting leaves family in fear, without home
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“We didn’t just lose
a little sense of security. We lost it all —
everything,” Cory said.
They remain in
Merritt, desperately
searching for a place
to call home.
The young family
has looked for help,
but is unsure where
to go.
The avenues they
have sought out have
not panned out, Cory
said, explaining their
situation does not meet
the proper criteria in
many cases.
“I guess if you
get shot in your own
home...” Cory said,
becoming flustered. “I
don’t even know what
to say.”
The couple has
been trying to keep
their daughter distracted throughout the past
month.
Despite day care
and constant outings,
Tristan remains visibly

shaken.
She is scared of
people she does not
know and is very cautious about going to
new places.
“My five-year-old
daughter is worrying
about being safe,”
Cory said. “That’s
not something a little
girl should be worried
about.”
Security is something with which the
entire family is struggling.
Cory and Tanya
were sitting outside
in Merritt on Canada
Day, trying to cool off
in the evening and
relax after a long day.
Then the fireworks
began.
“We didn’t even
think about them
before then,” Cory
said.
His stomach
instantly began churning and the hair on his
neck stood on ends up
as a chill went through
his body at the first

fireworks pop, which
instantly brought him
back to the moment of
the shooting.
They are unable to
sit through a movie at
the theatre due to the
loud noises. Tanya is
afraid to be left alone
and there is always a
sense of unease even
while sitting in their
sister’s living room, 45
minutes from the scene
of the shooting.
“I am 32 years old
and have been around
and seen a lot,” Cory
said. “Yet I never
thought being at home
with locked doors
would be something I
would need to worry
about.”
The family recently
got a puppy to help
with the feeling of
unease.
“It gives that added
sense of security,”
Cory said.
They continue to
search for a place to
live, hoping to find a
home somewhere on

the outskirts of Kamloops at a rate they
can afford.
“We just need
someone to help us
out, something to get
our feet back on the
ground,” Cory said.
“I don’t want my
daughter to think the
only safe place is her
aunty’s house. I need
to let her know that
her home is safe, but
she needs a home.”
Trevor Michael
Wilvers faces several
charges in relation to
the shooting including unlawfully causing
bodily harm, criminal
negligence causing
bodily harm, possession of a prohibited or
restricted firearm with
ammunition, and possessing a weapon for
a dangerous purpose
and possession of a
firearm contrary to a
judicial order.
He is scheduled
to return to court on
Thursday, July 18, at
9:30 a.m.

Closing Out

Tanya Watkins and Cory Sabyan sit on the steps of Tanya’s sister’s Merritt home with their five-yearold daughter Tristan and the family’s new puppy. They are staying with Tanya’s sister while they try to
get back on their feet after Tanya was accidentally shot in the arm while sitting in the living room of
the family’s former Kamloops apartment last month. Michael Potestio/Herald

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After a long and
heated discussion at
the June 25 regular
meeting, city council
approved $14,500
for the Nicola Valley
Community Arts
Council’s cultural
mapping group.
The group requested $9,500 for 2013
but were supposed to
be awarded $5,000
in 2012, which went
unclaimed after a lapse
in communication
between the city and
the arts council.
Arts council president Chelsea Werrun
said she was relieved to
hear about getting the
funding.
“We are super
excited that we were
provided that funding
and it’s more than we
expected,” she said.
Werrun said the
group was unaware
they were to receive
$5,000 in 2012. The
money was awarded to
the arts council’s cultural mapping group
who were chosen to
undertake the city’s
cultural mapping initiative.
After the money
went unclaimed, it was

put back into excess
funds at the end of
the year, Merritt
Mayor Susan Roline
told the Herald.
“They came to us
now wanting $9,500
for the project, but
council decided to
add that extra five
on to it too,” Roline
said.
At the meeting,
City of Merritt Chief
Administrative Officer
Matt Noble requested
pushing back the
request for $9,500 to
the 2014 budget.
He said the arts
council did not apply
for funding by the
deadline of Nov. 30,
2012 for funding in
2013.
Coun. Harry
Kroeker said he
thought it was a mistake not to go back
and give the cultural
mapping group the
$5,000 they were supposed to get from
council in 2012.
Councillors Kurt
Christopherson and
Alastair Murdoch said
they wanted to see
the arts council still
receive the $5,000.
Murdoch said the city
should have sent the
arts council the money
right away instead of

‘It shows the community
and outside groups that the
council of the city recognizes
the importance of arts, culture
and heritage within our
community.’
— MERRITT MAYOR
SUSAN ROLINE

waiting for them to ask
for it beacause council
asked them to undertake the project. He
also said he wanted to
see the group receive
additional money that
was requested this year.
Noble said no one
in administration disagreed with providing
the $5,000, although
it did not exist as it
was put back into
retained earnings after
going unclaimed. The
request was how to
deal with the request
of $9,500, he said.
Coun. Mike Goetz
made a motion to
approve the $9,500,
which carried unanimously. Murdoch then
made a motion that
council also approve
the overdue $5,000.
Goetz and Coun.
Dave Baker said they
were against adding
that additional money.

In the end, the
$5,000 passed
by a vote of 4-3
with Kroeker,
Christopherson,
Murdoch and
Norgaard voting in
favour of the extra
money.
Christopherson was
a long-time director
for the arts council
but resigned from the
board in the winter
during conflict of
interest debates at city
hall, and remains a
member of the group.
Roline said the cultural mapping project
was started by council
in 2010 in an effort
to create an inventory
pertaining to all of
Merritt’s arts, culture
and heritage. This
involved identifying all
of Merritt’s historical
buildings, arts committees and galleries, and
the programs that go

with them.
Werrun said that
inventory report
was done by the
Arlington Group — a
Vancouver-based planning and architecture
consulting group —
which created a report
with a map of all the
cultural groups and
activities in Merritt.
The report also outlined the successes and
challenges of the city’s
arts and culture scene,
she said.
Werrun said the
Arlington Group then
recommended that the
NVCAC champion the
implementation of the
cultural map project.
The arts council then
met with stakeholders
identified in the report
and presented 13 recommendations to city
council last year.
Some of those recommendations have
already been implemented, such as the
calendar of community events on the city’s
website, Werrun said.
She added the city
also asked the arts
council to develop an
arts and culture policy.
Roline said this arts,
culture and heritage
policy will demonstrate
two things.

“First of all, it
shows the community
and outside groups
that the council of
the city recognizes the
importance of arts,
culture and heritage
within our community,” said Roline. “And
the second part of
that policy — what it’s
intended to do — is
to show grant funders
(0the federal government and the provincial government) that
our community is serious about arts, culture
and heritage.”
Werrun said the
goal now is to implement a cultural mapping policy, adding the
project is important
for Merritt as tourism relies heavily on a
community’s arts and
culture.
“When you go to
other communities or
you travel anywhere
in the world, what
are you going to see?
You’re going to see the
place, the location, the
scenery and all of that,
but you’re also going to
experience a different
way of life that relates
to the arts, culture and
heritage, and Merritt
has so many wonderful
little pieces of that,”
Werrun said.

Hospital holding celebration for name change
By Emily Wessel
THE HERALD

newsroom@merrittherald.com

The Nicola Valley Hospital and Health Centre is
holding an open house to
celebrate its formal name
change and showcase what
it offers.
The centre’s name
change began in January at
the request of community
members who thought the
word “hospital” more accu-

rately described what the
centre offers, said Bernie
Easson, community integration health services administrator for Interior Health
Authority. Although the new
sign went up six months
ago, Easson said the change
was recently formalized,
and that’s why the centre is
holding the celebration on
Thursday.
“Working in health care,
we see the services we’re

providing, but the term
‘hospital’ kind of helps
everyone in the community
understand a little bit better
what services are there,” she
said.
Easson added that it’s
also important to visitors
and people who might move
to Merritt that the word
“hospital” is in the name.
The open house will
include speeches by Merritt
Mayor Susan Roline and

Interior Health Authority board chair Norman
Embree, as well as guided
tours and question periods.
The event starts at 3 and
runs until 7 p.m.
The hospital is considered a Level 1 Community
Hospital by Interior Health
Authority, which means it
covers a broader range of
services than a community
health centre — including
mental health, dietician ser-

vices and a 24-7 emergency
room — but less than a
Level 2 Community Hospital such as Kamloops’ Royal
Inland Hospital, which has
more specialized services
such as obstetrics and surgery. That means the local
hospital can take care of
patients’ immediate needs,
while patients requiring
more specialized care are
referred to Kamloops, Easson said.

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Chamber
requests better
highway signage
The Merritt and
District Chamber
of Commerce
has decided to
forward a letter to
the Department
of Highways
requesting improved
signage leading
to the Coquihalla
Highway.
At last week’s
meeting, some
members who were
present felt that
signage around
the traffic lights at
Nicola Avenue and
Voght Street and
coming in from
Spences Bridge
are inadequate
for tourists trying
to locate the new
highway.
In other news
from the meeting,
the Chamber
decided to look into
the possibility of
becoming involved
in the Partners in
Enterprise Program
for cost-sharing
with the provincial
government in
relation to tourism
promotion and
development.

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NICOLA VALLEY NEWS
GOING TO THE DOGS
(Left) An Afghan hound let its
silky coat flow as it strutted
its stuff at the Nicola Valley
Kennel Club dog show held on
the Canada Day long weekend.
On Saturday, Sunday and
Monday, Voght Park went to the
dogs as spectators could see
various breeds all vying for a
blue ribbon.
(Right) Dogs — and handlers
— of all sizes took part in the
long weekend’s competitions.
Michael Potestio/Herald

Council approves mill subdivision for Green Energy Project
By Michael Potestio
THE HERALD

reporter@merrittherald.com

Council voted
unanimously on June
25 to authorize the
mayor and chief
administrative officer
to sign a performance
agreement that will
allow eight and a half
acres in the southwest
corner of the Tolko
lumberyard to be subdivded and used for
Western BioEnergy’s
Merritt Green Energy
Project.
The portion of the
Tolko property that
will be used for the
Green Energy Project
is on the corner of
Midday Valley Road
and Houston Street,
mayor Roline told the
Herald.
City of Merritt
Chief Administrative
Officer Matt Noble
told council the project is a very important
economic development
for Merritt.
He said he expects
the next steps to result
in a major construction project in the city
that will bring additional benefits once
completed.
The subdivision
is one of the last few
steps to make that
land available for the
project to begin.
The Merritt Green
Energy Project will
burn wood waste from
mills to create electricity to put back on the
grid.

within our forest so
it’s not being burnt
out there and going
into the atmosphere.
It’ll be processed and
turned into hydroelectricity, so that’s
the biggest benefit,”
Roline said.
She also said the
city has been told that
as this project progresses, there will be
an option for Merritt
residents to take small
trees and leave them
at the site for use.
“It helps our residents also get green,”
Roline said.

Tolko will be using
some of the energy
and supplying some
of the wood waste to
Western BioEnergy
ro use in the project,
Roline said.
The mayor said this
project will have benefits to both Tolko and
the community.
“I think the biggest
benefit is lower cost
[of] power for Tolko,
and then for the community [it] is supplying additional power
back to Hydro’s grid,
but it’s also cleaning
up all the wood waste

August is the projected start date to
break ground on the
site. Next, council will
need to pass a building
permit.
Merritt Tolko manager Clayton Storey
said the approval is
excellent news for
both wood working
businesses and the
community alike.
“Of course we support any economic
growth within the
communities we operate in,” Storey said.
“We’re excited that
we’re one step closer

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to seeing a power
plant become a realization.”
Tolko and all other
wood working facilities as well as the surrounding woodlands
will supply product to
the plant, he said.
“It’s a great opportunity for anyone
who’s reliant on the
forest industry to provide biofuel to that
power plant,” Storey
said.
Coun. Dave Baker,
who works at Tolko,
excused himself from
the vote.

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• Odd power lines running to the house or humming
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result in payment if an arrest or warrant is obtained.

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Made in China? Local student says
otherwise, and has prize to prove it
By Emily Wessel
THE HERALD

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Aspiring scientist Breckin Baillie
is an award-winning
researcher.
The Bench
Elementary student
won the national prize
for the best researched
project in the nine
to 11 age category
entered in the Where
Challenge, a national
science project competition that looks at
the origins of natural
resources in household
items.
The project was
assigned as a regular
school project and gave
students the option of
entering into the competition. Baillie and
fellow students Olivia
Boven and Emily
Whitecross entered.
Weeks later, Baillie got
called to the principal’s
office. Any fear that
he was in trouble soon
dissolved when Baillie
got the good news that
he’d won the national
prize as well as the top
prize for his region
(B.C./Alberta/territories) in his age group.
Combined, the prizes
earned Baillie $375.
Baillie’s project

focused on three nonrenewable resources
found in computers
and where they come
from, and summed up
his findings in a twominute video called
“Made in China?”
“I was researching
what things came in a
computer, and then the
whole ‘made in China’
thing came to me and
I talked about with my
mom,” he said. “Why
does China get all the
credit for production of
computers? The components of a computer
are made from resources that are found all
around the world.”
Baillie said he
found that computers
use “a ton” of nonrenewable resources
in their components,
but he narrowed down
his research to focus
on neodymium, platinum and arsenic. He
was able to see these
resources in action by
dismantling a computer
donated by Merritt
Secondary School computer technician Ben
Grant.
“With the help
of my brother, some
screwdrivers and a
whole lot of brute
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whole thing apart,” he
said. “We found the
neodymium magnets,
and that’s in the hard
drive in this small case,
and there was a lid
on it. The screwdriver
couldn’t pry it open.
I bet the neodymium
was keeping it together.”
Baillie’s awardwinning video features
him in a wacky wig
and lab coat with his
dismantled computer
in front of him.
“I guess I decided
to put it together how
I did because I knew
that was something

that would grab the
judges’ attention,”
Baillie said, adding that
his mom helped him
with filming the video
and even made cue
cards for his one-take
delivery.
The video ends on a
cleverly-written poem
about the origins of
neodymium, arsenic
and platinum and how
they come together in
computer components
– neodymium in magnets, arsenic in chips,
and platinum in the
motherboard.
The outgoing
10-year-old said he’s

going to put about
$200 from his winnings
into his college fund at
his mom’s recommendation.
“My mom always
says, ‘You won it from
school, so I think some
of it should go to
school,’” Baillie said.
“The rest is my money,
and I can splurge on
whatever I want.”
As for his summer,
the ambitious student
is heading to music
camp in Kamloops for
three weeks.
“Then I’m going to
take a nice long break
in August,” Baillie said.

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VIEWS
VICTORIA – There’s a new
sheriff in town for BC Hydro, and
it didn’t take long for the political
range war to resume.
The new sheriff, Kootenay East
MLA Bill Bennett, found himself on
the barricades as soon as he got the
hugely complex responsibility for
energy and mines. His saddlebags
bulge with reports on BC Hydro’s
seemingly runaway costs, along
with Premier Christy Clark’s “core
review” to cut $50 million a year
from government operations.
NDP energy critic John Horgan
highlighted the latest BC Hydro
troubles in his assault on the
BC Liberal budget. First there
was a $140 million cost overrun
on the Northwest Transmission
Line, under construction north
from Terrace to the tiny Tahltan
village of Iskut and adjacent mine
properties.
Then BC Hydro revealed results
of an audit of its earthquake
preparedness. “Condition red”
was the key message. Basically, the
sprawling utility has disaster plans
for each of its dams or other power
facilities, but no overall way to get
the provincial power grid back up
after a major earthquake.
Horgan recited his list of BC
Hydro sins after a decade of
meddling by the BC Liberals.

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Citizens can stymie not-so-smooth criminals

Emily Wessel
Merritt
MUSINGS
Every now and then,
I get an email from an
RCMP detachment
somewhere in the province that makes me stop
and wonder what people
are thinking. Last week,
that email came from
Surrey, and announced
the arrest of the “surgical
mask bandit.”
This bandit, White

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Rock’s Travis JensenPickford, 23, committed 12 armed robberies
in just over a month
between mid-May and
mid-June. In each robbery, Jensen-Pickford
disguised his face, sometimes with the traditional
bandana, and sometimes
with a surgical mask.
The germaphobe-looking
bandit would approach
victims as they withdrew
money from an ATM.
Police everywhere
deal with a healthy dose
of bizarre crimes, but
another one from the end
of March in Surrey is
probably one responding
officers won’t soon forget.
A man reportedly
went into a shop yelling,
then took a jug of milk,
went into the parking lot,

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and dumped the milk
all over himself. And
that’s not even where the
weirdness ends.
Police determined he
was high, had been pepper sprayed, and had also
been shot in the leg.
Back to strange choices for facial disguises:
a 41-year-old Brit was
sentenced to two years in
jail last week for robbing
a gas station in Cornwall,
U.K. in 2012 wearing a
clear plastic bag over his
head.
I suppose he didn’t
realize that the people
he was robbing could see
through the bag about as
well as he could see out
of it.
The man also tried
to pass off his cellphone
as a gun, but the jig

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was up when the phone
rang during the robbery
attempt.
In France, a would-be
bank robber attempted
to disguise himself by
wearing underwear on
his head. The attempted
burglary was thwarted
by a teller who recognized the man despite his
creative application of
underpants. He was sentenced to eight months in
prison.
In Melbourne, Australia earlier this year, an
underwear-masked thief
was successful in his robbery of a service station.
Maybe his underwear
mask was a more modest
make of thicker cotton
than his French counterpart’s.
Though there are ele-

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ments of humour in the
what-were-they-thinking
antics of these criminals,
all of these crimes are
serious in nature and
victimize others. While
I haven’t heard of any
underwear-masked bandits in Merritt, the seemingly endless reports of
thefts mean many of the
people living here are
victims of crime. Crime
may happen anywhere at
any given time, but that
doesn’t mean we have to
be quiet victims of it.
A new Facebook
group called the Merritt
Neighbourhood Watch
encourages members to
post about crime and
suspicious activity in and
around Merritt.

See ‘Information’ Page 7

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From Page 6
Not only could this group
help people recover their stolen property, it encourages
them and their neighbours to
be actively involved in crime
prevention. The more aware
people are of what to look for
when it comes to crime, the
more effective we are at policing our own communities. This
doesn’t just help ourselves, it
helps our neighbours and our
RCMP, too.
This Facebook page is one
way people can help prevent
crimes in their own backyards.
Merritt’s Community Policing Office offers volunteers
the chance to be part of crime
reduction and prevention programs that are flexible based
on the amount of time you
might have to give to the cause.
Foot patrols, citizens on patrol,
speed watch and block watch
volunteers act as the eyes and
ears of the RCMP and give
members of the public the
chance to relay the first-hand
information they might have as
well as stay actively involved in
community initiatives that promote a healthy city.
Proactive behaviour is the
key to crime prevention, and
increasing the visibility of
informed and active citizens
benefits the whole community.

Have you or has
someone you
know been a
victim of crime?
COOKING UP SOME COMARADERIE Long-time member of the Merritt Legion Stew Pratt hands nine-year-old Caitlyn Dewit a
hamburger at the legion’s 85th anniversary barbecue on Friday, June 28 outside Royal Canadian Legion Branch 96. Michael Potestio/Herald

Development for sake of
rich at expense of poor
Dear Editor,
How cynical....
I think one must be
absolutely cynical or
completely daft to take
the large Canadian
corporations and mining
companies exploiting
their resources as partners
in helping the poor
of third world, yet it
is again the approach
taken by the Harper
government by recently

amalgamating CIDA
under the Department of
Foreign Affairs, Trade and
Development.
Whether cynical
or daft, the Harper
government is diverting
Canadian development
assistance for the poor to
companies whose interests
are opposite — in
principle and practice —
to the well-being of these
poor people. There is
well-known evidence and

testimony on this matter.
Mr. Harper knows
the role played by
multinational corporations
in the impoverishment
of several third world
countries. He is thus
making another dangerous
right turn in favour of
the very rich, whose first
victims, in the truest
sense, will be the poorest
of the world.
I hope pressures
from the public, from

opposition parties and
from members of their
own party will force the
Harper Conservatives
to change their mind
towards CIDA and to
adopt a much more
human approach toward
the poor. Assistance to the
poor is fragile and must
go to the poor, not to
large corporations.
Bruno Marquis
Gatineau, Que.

Rates to increase 32 per cent over 3 years
From Page 6
Huge deferred debt
revealed by the Auditor
General, enormous
liabilities for private power
contracts, and more rate
increases that Bennett has
already admitted are on the
way all happened under BC
Liberal watch. And now
they can’t even keep us safe
from the big one.
Bennett fired back.
About $2 billion of that
debt is for seismic upgrades
for the 80-year-old Ruskin
Dam in Maple Ridge, and
the equally frail John Hart
Dam on the Campbell
River, built with wooden

water pipes. Major BC
Hydro works slowed
down after completion of
Revelstoke and Mica dams
in the 1980s, and now the
work is more expensive.
The Northwest
Transmission Line is a
partnership with Imperial
Metals, which wants
to power its Red Chris
copper-gold-silver mine.
Bennett said the company
is not only paying for the
last section to Iskut and the
mine site, but pitching in
for the main line as well.
Ottawa paid $130 million
to get remote communities
off decades of dependence
on diesel generators.

AltaGas, owner of one
of those private power
projects in the region,
puts in $180 million to
get connected to the grid.
The line will open up
more mining and hydro
possibilities.
The cost overrun traces
back mainly to the shortage
of high-skill labour such as
geotechnical engineering
that the remote region
already faces. And this is
before natural gas pipelines
and LNG plants gear up.
Bennett takes over
from the last sheriff, Rich
Coleman, who put BC
Hydro through the wringer
in 2011. Coleman soon

abandoned his idea of
putting off the Ruskin and
John Hart upgrades (again)
to keep rates low through
the election, and saw the
B.C. Utilities Commission
jack up the rate increase to
seven per cent to help slow
the ballooning debt.
What’s ahead for rates?
The utility is looking for 32
per cent in the next three
years, says energy lawyer
David Austin.
He calculates that only
2.5 per cent is attributable
to increased private power
costs.
Among other things,
BC Hydro needs regional
emergency centres capable

of functioning after a
Japan-sized quake, plus
expansion.
Bennett came clean
on another reason for
rate increases – the
government’s increasing
dependence on taking a
“dividend” as BC Hydro’s
lone “shareholder.”
The newly updated
budget tells us this annual
“dividend” is past $500
million and rising fast:
$545 million this year, $611
million next year and $684
million the year after.
Tom Fletcher is legislative
reporter and columnist for Black
Press and BCLocalnews.com.

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Young Riders invade the Nicola Valley once more
By Ian Webster
THE HERALD

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Once again this
year, a large contingent
of BC Young Riders
made their way into the
Interior for a three-day
eventing clinic at the
Dot Ranch, located 30
minutes west of Merritt
just off Highway 8.
The official hosts on
the Canada Day weekend for the 62 riderand-horse combinations
and their substantial
entourages were the Dot
Ranch’s owners, Jens
and Lynn Larsen.
Lynn has been the
senior technical director
for BC Young Riders for
the past five years. She is
officially stepping down
in October of this year.
Both Jens and Lynn
are veterans of threeday eventing competitions which see horses
and riders complete
challenging dressage,
cross-country and stadium-jumping phases over
a concentrated period of
just two or three days.
The BC Young
Riders program focuses
on the development
and training of talented

Olympian Rebecca Howard, from Salmon Arm, was one of the
guest instructors at the B.C. Young Riders camp, held at the
Dot Ranch west of Merritt on the Canada Day weekend. Ian
Webster/Herald

young equestrian riders,
aged 13-21, so that they
can successfully compete at the provincial,
national and ultimately
international level, and
strive for places on
Canadian teams that
attend major events such
as the Olympics, the Pan
American Games, and
the World Equestrian
Games.
With that goal in
mind, the Larsens welcomed Rebecca Howard
to their outstanding
group of guest instructors at this year’s Young
Riders camp.
Howard, a former
Young Rider herself

who was born and
raised in Salmon Arm,
competed for Canada in
last summer’s Olympic
Games in London,
England. She also
was a member of the
Canadian three-day
event team that took the
silver medal at the 2011
Pan American Games
in Mexico, and placed
23rd individually at the
2010 World Equestrian
Games in Lexington,
Kentucky.
Currently living and
training in England,
Howard ended her brief
visit home with a coaching stint at the Young
Riders’ camp.

TAKING THE PLUNGE Under the watchful eye of Canadian Olympic team member Rebecca Howard (left), 18-year-old
Marissa Young from Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island makes a dynamic entry into the water jump on board her 11-year-old
thoroughbred gelding, Amadeus. Ian Webster/Herald

“It went really well,”
Howard said. “It was
nice to have three full
days with the kids. We
did flat work first, where
you really get to know
the riders and their horses and give them a few
priorities that become a
theme throughout the

whole weekend. It also
allows you to get right to
work when it comes to
jumping because you’ve
already covered the
basics.”
Howard was suitably
impressed by the young
charges she worked with
at the camp.

“It was a great turnout, and I liked what I
saw. Everyone was keen
and so appreciative.
They were all hungry for
knowledge and ready to
work hard. It was a great
atmosphere to teach in.
“The program that’s
been put in place by

Lynn and her team
of coaches is nice,”
Howard added. “A
lot of the riders have
good basics and a good
understanding, which
provides a sound platform to work with them
on.”

Olympian Rebecca Howard pursuing her dream
By Ian Webster
THE HERALD

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Salmon Arm’s
Rebecca Howard has
been a listed rider with
the Canadian High
Performance Event
program for the past
decade.
In addition to her
participation in the 2010
World Equestrian Games
in Kentucky, the 2011
Pan American Games
in Mexico and this past
summer’s Olympic
Games in London,
Howard has competed at
some of the world’s premier eventing competitions — such as Bromont
in Canada, Rolex in
the U.S., Blenheim
in Germany and
Badminton in Britain.
Howard’s riding
career began in her
hometown, “doing all

the typical horse stuff,”
she said. It wasn’t long,
however, before her
journey began taking
her farther and farther
afield — to various parts
of the province, then to
other areas of Canada,
and not long after to the
United States.
From 2006 to 2012,
Howard was based out
of The Fork Stables, a
magnificent equestrian
facility located in North
Carolina. From that
working and training
base, she travelled up
and down the eastern
seaboard of the States
competing at many of
the continent’s top threeday events.
Immediately after her
Olympic experience in
London, Howard relocated to England. She
is now living and training at Maizey Manor

near Marleborough in
Wiltshire, about one
hour west of London.
“The Fork is an
amazing facility, but
unfortunately it’s in the
middle of nowhere,”
Howard said in explaining her move across the
Atlantic Ocean. “You
have to travel a lot to
compete. Over here [in
England], everything is
so much closer. There’s
much more opportunity at your fingertips,
or within a few hours
drive.”
Howard went on to
add, “I made the move
here to keep working on
my riding education and
improve my skills. I have
an amazing horse that I
want to take full advantage of.”
That horse is Riddle
Master (a.k.a. Rupert),
a 12-year-old Canadian

Sport Horse gelding. He
has been with Howard
for almost all of her
journey to international
stardom, through thick
and thin. Howard firmly
believes that Rupert’s
best is yet to come, and
recent results would
seem to indicate that she
is right.
In April, Howard
and Riddle Master finished sixth overall in a
star-studded field of 78
entries at an international event in Fountainbleu,
France.
A month later, at
Badminton, the talented
pair rocketed up the
leaderboard from 32nd
after dressage to 12th at
the finish of the competition.
“I think that I was
a little surprised about
Fountainbleu because
it was early in the sea-

CLOSE PARTNERSHIPS Canadian team rider Rebecca Howard’s connection to the Nicola
Valley is a strong one. Her groom at both the 2011 Pan American Games in Mexico and the
2012 Olympics in London was Merritt’s Dana Cooke. Above left, Cooke and Howard are shown
celebrating Canada’s silver medal in the team competition. Above right, Howard and her horse,
Riddle Master, compete in the stadium jumping at the London Olympics. Photos submitted

son,” Howard said. “At
Badminton, I was actually disappointed with
my dressage score, but
we were able to move
up with the double clear
in cross-country and
stadium.
“We’re just getting
to the point where we

can be quite competitive in these fields,” said
Howard, who tries not
to get ahead of herself
and look too far down
the road. “I’m just going
to take each season as
it comes. You just never
know.”
As for the next

Olympic Games, slated
for Rio de Janiero, Brazil
in 2016?
“We’ll see,” Howard
said guardedly. “Rupert
[Riddle Master] will
be 15 when Rio comes
around, so hopefully he’ll
still be at the top of his
game.”

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Nicola Valley cowgirls headed to high school finals
By Ian Webster
THE HERALD

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While classes may be
over for the vast majority of youngsters in B.C.,
two Merritt Secondary
School students have
some unfinished business to take care of
before they can officially
call it a year.
Both Amy Pozzobon,
17, and Fallon Fosbery,
16, have qualified for
the Canadian High
School Finals Rodeo in
Nanton, Alta. from July
25-27.
Pozzobon, a recent
Grade 12 graduate from
MSS, will be competing in the pole bending
event at the CHSFR,
while Fosbery, who
will begin Grade 12 in
September, is entered in
the ladies’ barrel racing.
Fosbery and Pozzobon earned the right
to attend this year’s
Canadian Finals by finishing second and fourth
respectively in the aforementioned events at the
British Columbia High
School Finals Rodeo in
Quesnel, June 6-9.
By placing in the top
four at the BCHSFR,
Pozzobon and Fosbery
also qualified for the
National High School
Rodeo Finals, being
held in Rock Springs,
Wyoming, from July
13-21. Only Fosbery has
chosen to attend this
mammoth event that
is billed as the world’s
largest rodeo.
Fosbery went into
the 2012-13 B.C. Finals
ranked Number 1 in
the barrels, thanks to
no fewer than six firstplace finishes during the
competitive high school
rodeo season which

runs from September to
October in the fall and
then from April to June
the following spring.
Unfortunately, some
questionable running
conditions in Quesnel
resulted in Fosbery reining in her horse Dutch
and ‘playing it safe.’
“The grounds in
Quesnel are brand
new,” Fosbery said, “and
the footing wasn’t good
at all. It was deep and
dangerous. I didn’t want
to risk injuring my horse
so I took it easy and
just rode fast enough
to qualify for Nationals
and the Canadian
championships.”
Fosbery placed
eighth on day one, and
then second and third
the next two days to finish second overall, just
12 points behind the
winner, Vanessa Leggett
from Kamloops.
“At first, I was a little
disappointed not to have
won the title,” Fosbery
said, “but it was more
important that Dutch
stay healthy and not get
injured.”
As for Pozzobon,
the younger sister of
professional bull rider
Ty Pozzobon, she placed
sixth, fifth and third in
her three runs to secure
fourth place in the poles,
a single point behind
third-place finisher
Rylee Trenholm from
Chetwynd.
Pozzobon also competed in the barrels
in Quesnel, finishing
16th, and placed 12th
in breakaway roping.
She wrapped up a busy
weekend by placing 14th
in team roping with her
partner, Kristen Bell
from Houston.
For her part, Fosbery

Resa Stoltzfus riding Colombo in ladies’ cutting.

also competed in breakaway roping and finished 14th, along with
17th in goat tying, as
well as seventh in team
roping with her partner,
Cole Churchill from
Armstrong.
Other Merritt
Secondary School
competitors at the B.C.
Finals Rodeo were
Kelsey Kynoch (14th in
pole bending), Madison
Stoltzfus (seventh in
girls’ cow cutting) and
her sister, Resa (ninth in
cow cutting).
Fosbery finished
fourth in the girls’ allaround competition
while Pozzobon placed
11th and Madison
Stoltzfus 13th.
At the BCHSRA
awards banquet held
immediately following the B.C. Finals in
Quesnel, Pozzobon gave
the valedictorian speech,
while Madison Stoltzfus
was chosen Most
Sportsmanlike.
Dutch, Fosbery’s
12-year-old gelding,
was selected AQHA
Horse of the Year and
BCHSRA barrel horse.
A pair of Merritt
moms, Leanne
Pozzobon and Marlo
Fosbery, were both honored at the gala evening
for their long service to
high school rodeo.
Pozzobon, along
with Sam Oakford
from Vancouver Island
was also given the
Inspirational Rodeo
Mom of the Year
award, named in
honor and memory of
Mona Elliott, a dedicated rodeo mom from
Vernon who passed
away in 2011 from
cancer.
In late breaking

DIGGING DEEP (Above) Amy Pozzobon rides her horse, Rigs, in the pole bending event at the B.C. High School Finals Rodeo
in Quesnel on the June 6-9 weekend. (Below) Fallon Fosbery works her 12-year-old gelding, Dutch, around a barrel at the high
school championships. All photos courtesy of Devynn Rutz/Rose Prairie, B.C.

high school rodeo
news, Kelsey Kynoch
just returned from the
Silverstate International
Rodeo in Winnemucca,

Nevada.
The 16-year-old
Kynoch was part of a
15-member team from
B.C. She competed in

Kelsey Kynoch riding Hammer in pole bending.

the ladies’ barrel racing
and pole bending at the
five-day competition.
While Kynoch
did not place at the

Silverstate event, her
mom, Val, reported that
Kelsey had two nice
barrel runs and a good
pole bending run.

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Description: Reporting to the Principal, the Secretary/Receptionist is responsible for ofÀce support within the Lower
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START DATE: August 19, 2013
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201 Horn Road, Merritt, BC. VIK 1M9
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